County Infirmaries (Ireland) Act, 1807

COUNTY INFIRMARIES (IRELAND) ACT 1807

CHAPTER L.

An Act to amend an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the Fifth Year of his present Majesty’s Reign, for erecting and establishing Publick Infirmaries or Hospitals in Ireland. [8th August 1807.]

Recital of Irish Act, 5 Geo. 3. c. 20.

Recited Act to extend to all counties of cities, &c. in Ireland for establishing public infirmaries.

Grand juries to make presentments for the support of such establishments.

WHEREAS by an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the fifth year of his present Majesty’s reign, intituled “An Act for erecting and establishing publick infirmaries or hospitals in this kingdom,” it is enacted, that in the several and respective counties therein mentioned publick infirmaries or hospitals shall be erected and established and supported in manner in the said Act mentioned: And whereas it is expedient to extend the provisions of the said recited Act: Be it therefore enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that from and after the passing of this Act the said recited Act and all the provisions therein contained for the erecting, establishing, and supporting of publick infirmaries or hospitals in counties shall be extended and construed to extend to all counties of cities and counties of towns in Ireland for the erecting and establishing of a publick infirmary or hospital, wherein no special provision has been made by any Act or Acts of Parliament in force in Ireland at the time of the passing of this Act; and that the surgeon of every such publick infirmary or hospital to be erected in any such county of a city or county of a town under the said recited Act and this Act shall be appointed and paid in like manner as the surgeons to the county infirmaries or hospitals in the said Act mentioned; [1 and that the grand jury of any such county of a city or county of a town, in which any publick infirmary or hospital shall be so erected or established, shall make such presentments from time to time for the support of such hospitals as grand juries under the said recited Act are empowered to do ;] and that all other matters and things in the said recited Act or in any other Act contained, relating to the county infirmaries or hospitals in the said Act mentioned, shall extend and be applied in the erecting, establishing, supporting, and managing of such infirmaries in counties of cities and counties of towns in Ireland, as fully and effectually as if all such counties of cities and counties of towns had been mentioned in the said recited Act and included therein by name.

[1 Words within brackets in section 1 rep., except as to the county of the city of Dublin, 35 & 36 Vict. c. 97. (S.L.R.)]